The Dillon tribune., 1887-06-03
.,,raroN "sAss1EfY."
.,a Frauds ct the National ceP''"'
"A. Ex-La.sdre'' fr'" 'Ae
Frontier.

Hrontier.
.,..,eh there is a great show and any
A ", oS ..ocial position" and "ra"k" !"
%'.h,.s,on, ,S.sI there !. ".. =" eq.', amount IN
".' ',"..,,h to support |. In ,~o.'h'rd' OF the
NV. 49,. The majority Of those who shine
~. :. ..e,e,v and are the most prominent and
- .,..,e,.ible are dependent o" Government
''.r '''',,., and /. takes close management to
''', -. ,h.m suffice for plain living and
',... ,... n society. Many Of the Senators
=. ,'., re.l.hy; bu. they are the only one'' -
~ .,... xho have grea. wealth; and the
n...,ed . people, q. the rich winter resi-
a..,. who come only a. private c't'sen'
-. w.. called, are easily counted. Each sea-
.sn Washington runs aver with he're''es'
m .na oeauilcss girls, and widows who come
~ washington as to a great matrimonial
=, and wear themselves half out In
~. M struggle to get into and keep in
.ocie,y Rich men never come 10 hunt
..,,.. IN this modern Smithfield, and
,h.n New York millionaire did take \
Washington bride It was pretty girl In
.,,.;,ened circumstances, who had never
h..o known in the society Of army and
navy germans and legation balls. Young
army and navy officers are the most
,nercenary lot Of all, and they invariably
save ~ their leaves OF absence to spend
them in Washington during the winter
months One miscreant in epaulets once
horrided some married ladies by SAYING:
at pays US poor fellows on short COM
mons to pass season in Washinton send.
;ue bouquets and spending all our money
on the girls; for all the rich girls go there,
,np their fortunes are only equivalents for
the social positions that we can give them" !"
Sometimes the gay speculators get
terribly sold, a. not every paper that pass.
Is for a millionaire is really one, and
heiress is name very easily tickc'ee to a
sirl who dresses well. Recently there has
been notorious case OF one Of these Uni.
formed fortune hunters getting the sup.
posed heiress after a long siege, only to
find, TOO late, that the fortune was all in
the air, vanished, gone up like smoke. To
balance this there is the case Of another
Young officer who, although engaged to a
great heress now in Europe finishing her
French and buying her trousseau, longs
obc released from those golden fetters to
marry pennyiess orphan employed in
one Of the departments here. People who
believe in the old fashioned love stories ad-
miro and sympathize deeply with this
crooked course Of true love, but his brother
officers think the distracted youth plain
and simple lunatic.
A joke is often told on one very punctil'
ious army officer, who in the course ol
frontier experiences found his x.laundress
the wife Of Congressman. The laun'
dress' rise and the growth Of her husbands
fortune could not bring the ladies Of the
tort to recognize her, and this particula,
officer, although now General, could re-
member some stormy scenes, when, as Z
poor young lieutenant, he had scored and
upbraided the lavndress about matters O
ssartch, buttons and plain mending. Shs
fell in his way next at some celebration o1
event where her husband. the Congress
man was in one Of the front carriages 0
the procession, and she, the gorgeous
figure, on the platform crowded with th'
distinguished people Of the day. The Gen
eral in his uniform was introduced and he
voice and face sent his memory chasing
backwards. Just about as the identity wa
becoming clear her talk went on to tn
winter that she had just passed in Wash
mston. Her comments on society an.
people at the capital wound up conso'ingl,
with this: 20, yes! I found, too, that arm,
emeers go in quite good society at Wash
'"gson.' When this got into army GOSSIP
"furnished as much amusement as a re
mark that once rose above the hum O
voices at dinner party here when tn
"oe woman, who looked sixty and wor
arave"'black wig over face scanned witt
. hundred wrinkles, simperingly said
'es' mean to wear baby blue until
.~ ehrty."-Washington Cor. ST. Loui
'lsde Democrat.
English Capitalists.